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Himalayan Tie Bush
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Himalayan Tie Bush
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Common name: Himalayan Tie Bush, Himalayan String-Bush • Dogri: चमलाख Chamlaakh, तरटांग Tartaang • Garhwali: चंबई Chambai • Hindi: चमलिया Chamliya, तिलक Tilak • Khasi: Ja-Tyllu, Pan-Jung-Masi • Kumaoni: चंबोई Chamboi, चमलेटु Chamletu, चमलिया Chamliya • Nepali: कालो चौलायो Kaalo Chaulaayo, कालो लोग्ते Kaalo Logte, लुल लुले Lullule, पाती Paatee, फुर्के पाती Phurke Paatee • Pahari: चंबट Chambat, तिलक Tilak • Punjabi: ਭਟਨਿੱਗੀ Bhatniggi, ਤਿਲਕ Tilak Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Wikstroemia canescens    Family: Thymelaeaceae (Daphne family)
Synonyms: Daphne canescens, Daphne sericea, Diplomorpha canescens
Himalayan Tie Bush is a small shrub with many slender branches, with narrow-eeliptic or oblong leaves. Leaves are 3-6 cm long, silky when young, but becoming hairless. Greenish yellow tubular flowers are borne in rounded or sometimes elongates short-stalked clusters. Flowers have a slender tube 0.8-1.2 cm long, silky-haired on the outside, with 4 short, blunt, spreading petals. Young shoots are hairy. Stems are up to 2 m. Fruit is narrow ovoid, black when ripe, enclosed at first in the hairy tube, which splits and falls off. Himalayan Tie Bush is found in the Himalayas, from Afghanistan to Sikkim, and Sri Lanka and China, at altitudes of 1800-3000 m. Flowering: May-September.
Identification credit: G.S. Rawat Photographed at Govindghat-Ghanghria route, Uttarakhand.
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